ZDF - Burning Down Paris (2012)

ZDF - Burning Down Paris (2012)

General Dietrich von Choltitz is chiefly remembered for his role as the last commander of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1944, when he disobeyed Chancellor Adolf Hitler's orders to level the city, but instead surrendered it to Free French forces.He was hailed in many contemporary accounts as the “Saviour of Paris” for not allowing it to be destroyed.

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